Monday, October 31, 2011

Take a number

When I was born, I was the 2,652,690,053rd person in the population at that time.

That's my number, go get your own.

Today the UN estimates that the World's population will hit 7 Billion.

Imagine. In just under 60 years, we have gone from 2.6 Billion to 7 Billion people living on the Earth.

The good news is that the rate of increase is declining :
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762181.html

The bad news is that the population is still increasing. Along with the suffering and misery of poverty.

'At a poverty line of $1.25 a day, the revised estimates find :

'•1.4 billion people live at this poverty line or below'.

20% - 1 in 5 people living in the World today, sustain themselves on $1.25 a day.

But that's the World. We're the US. The Greatest Country in the World.

Where our poverty rate is only 15%.

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